MUCH ADO: Following a comedy bit on the Colbert Report that was intended to satirize Dan Snyder's Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation, Stephen Colbert became the target of a grassroots Twitter campaign by Asian Americans who objected to his joke. The vehement demands for Colbert's cancellation effectively drowned out the Native outrage over the original story.

BRILLIANT CAREER: Shoni Schimmel, Umatilla, finished her Louisville Cardinals college basketball career with 31 points in a loss to Maryland in the NCAA Tournament.

FESTIVAL BOUND:Drunktown's Finest, a film about Gallup, New Mexico starring such young Native talent as Jeremiah Bitsui, Carmen Moore, Morningstar Angeline and Kiowa Gordon, a Sundance Film Festival standout, and is now finding its way to other film festivals.

SDPI EXTENDED: Native health advocates have been pressing for years for a permanent reauthorization of the Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI), but the federal government says tribes and Indians will have to settle for another one-year extension.

ARTIFACTS SEIZED: A collection of cultural artifacts that took a 91-year-old Indiana man eight decades to amass was seized by the FBI. There were American Indian items among the collection of Don Miller, who has not been charged or arrested.